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April 7th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is recording short speeches for YouTube to keep in touch with voters across the country. According to Shashiranjan Yadav of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Modi records the speeches at his residence in between his campaign tours.

September 11th, 2006 The DTrace trouble-shooting software from Sun Microsystems was chosen as the Gold winner in The Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards contest, the second time in three years that a Sun entry has won the top award. Bryan Cantrill and a team of engineers at Sun Microsystems Inc.

October 7th, 2009 List of winners of top science and research medalsThe winners of the 2008 National Medal of Science: —Berni Alder, for developing computer methods useful for conceiving and executing experimental shock-wave simulations. —Francis S.

July 25th, 2009 Bill Gates receives Indira Gandhi Prize in IndiaNEW DELHI — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Saturday received the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development from India's president, a government statement said. The prize recognizes his work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

January 19th, 2009 CANNES - Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias has said that illegal downloading of songs from the Internet 'is like going to the supermarket and coming out with... two melons under your arm, free: it's all stealing in the end', EFE news agency reported.

February 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - Infosys Technologies Tuesday said it has instituted a Rs.5-million (Rs.50 lakh) award each for five top Indian scientists in recognition of their outstanding research contributions and achievements. The five awards will be given annually under the aegis of Infosys Science Foundation, a non-profit trust set up with a corpus of Rs.210.5 million (Rs.21.5 crore), the software major said in a statement here.

February 12th, 2009 COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa Friday appointed N.R. Narayana Murthy, chairman of India's Infosys Technologies, as his international advisor on information technology, the president's office said.

September 10th, 2009 Kolkata, Sept 10 Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, announced that its SingleRAN Dual Mode RRU3808 (RRU: Remote Radio Unit) and Super Mobile Softswitch MSOFX3000 products received InfoVision Awards from the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) at Broadband World Forum Europe, which was held in Paris (France) from Sept 7-9. “The IEC’s InfoVision Awards honor innovations that help advance the industry and deliver the promise of broadband,” said IEC President John Janowiak.

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - Former US national security adviser Mark Pfeifle has said that microblogging site Twitter should win the Nobel Peace Prize for its role during the civil unrest in Iran. "When traditional journalists were forced to leave the country, Twitter became a window for the world to view hope, heroism, and horror," The Telegraph quoted Pfeifle, as saying.

April 30th, 2009 Yahoo's Yang gets $1 in rocky final year as CEO SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. limited co-founder Jerry Yang's 2008 compensation package to his customary $1 salary during his final year as chief executive, a tumultuous reign that unraveled after he rebuffed Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion bid to buy the Internet company.

June 5th, 2009 AP: Compuware CEO Karmanos compensation dips NEW YORK — Mainframe software maker Compuware Corp.'s chief executive, Peter Karmanos Jr., was awarded compensation for fiscal 2009 valued at $4.2 million, down 29 percent from a year earlier, according to an Association Press calculation. Karmanos, 66, received a salary of $1.2 million, up from $1.05 million a year earlier.

January 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Third generation (3G) mobile subscribers in India will reach 90 million by 2013, forming 12 percent of the overall wireless base, an industry report released Monday said. A new report by industry association Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) and telecom consulting firm BDA, said, '3G service revenues will reach $15.8 billion by 2013, accounting for 46 percent of the total wireless service revenue'.

July 13th, 2009 Microsoft opens early testing on Office 2010SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. is giving a select group of technology-savvy testers an early peek at Office 2010, but it's still keeping Web-based versions of Word, Excel and its other go-to programs under wraps.

August 22nd, 2009 Oracle's billionaire CEO gets $84.5M pay packageSAN FRANCISCO — Oracle Corp.'s billionaire CEO Larry Ellison padded his fortune with a fiscal 2009 pay package the company valued at $84.5 million, down about $100,000 from the year before and made up mostly of stock options that haven't vested yet. On top of that, Ellison made $124.2 million by exercising 10 million stock options during the latest fiscal year, which ended May 31, according to the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company's annual proxy filing Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

May 22nd, 2009 LONDON - French President Nicolas Sarkozy has come under attack from the press after he revamped his Facebook page by posting a video of him kissing his supermodel wife Carla Bruni. The video, which was shot this month during an informal interview between First Lady and competition winners from a women's magazine, has been branded as "nauseating" by the press, reports Sky News.